Dividing Uttar Pradesh Society
Repeatedly spotlighting Muslims in the context of food preferences and raking up stereotypes is unhealthy for society. A new divisive … Continue reading Dividing Uttar Pradesh Society
Repeatedly spotlighting Muslims in the context of food preferences and raking up stereotypes is unhealthy for society. A new divisive … Continue reading Dividing Uttar Pradesh Society
We are publishing two articles documenting the principled position taken by the British Trotskyists, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), against … Continue reading A clean banner: British Trotskyists opposed 1948 partition of Palestine
Far-right “libertarian” candidate Javier Milei has won the presidential run-off election in Argentina with almost 56 percent of the vote, … Continue reading Argentina: far-right Milei victory reveals crisis of bourgeois regime
Rice growing farmer communities refuse to accept new fortified rice kernels, while public health experts express concern at the food … Continue reading ‘Plastic Rice’: Why the Govt’s Experiment With an Artificial Grain is Hard to Swallow for Rural Adivasis
A close to united Norwegian political elite portrays the climate challenge as an existential crisis. It is the biggest challenge … Continue reading Why don’t we do what matters? The world should demand that Norway uses its oil wealth for a green future
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and … Continue reading Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid. The … Continue reading Time to Stop Settler Colonialism Under Cloak of ‘Victimhood’
In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth across the US have joined the Palestine solidarity movement. We … Continue reading The demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and the communist response
The brutal bombing of Gaza City, with the huge numbers killed – well over 11,000 officially recorded so far, with … Continue reading Palestine: the threat of a second Nakba
Birsa Munda, born on November 15, 1875 in Ulihatu village (present Jharkhand) in British times, died mysteriously – reportedly of … Continue reading Did Birsa Munda die in vain?
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid. The … Continue reading Time to Stop Settler Colonialism Under Cloak of ‘Victimhood’
Bourgeois democracy in Austria is in a senile crisis. Like in other countries in Europe, the Hamas attacks of 7 … Continue reading Austria: communists the focus of political attacks as Gaza war accelerates crisis
Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries CAIRO, Egypt — The … Continue reading Israel is shutting down its human laboratory in Gaza
The following is an interview conducted by varunvasunarayananblog with a Palestinian teacher, living in the West Bank. They provide a … Continue reading A voice from the West Bank: Palestinian speaks with varunvasunarayananblog
He was impossible to have imagined into being until he arrived and is impossible to replicate once he’s gone. Indulge … Continue reading Jasprit Bumrah is a species of exactly one
As with the war in Ukraine, different communist parties around the world have taken different and even opposite positions regarding … Continue reading The Communist Party of Greece and the struggle for the liberation of Palestine: a necessary debate
In early November, one thousand attendees gathered in London for this year’s Revolution Festival – the school of communism. To … Continue reading Communism in Britain: the unbroken thread
While handing over tax concessions to capitalists to ‘promote employment’, the Centre is not spending to fill the large number … Continue reading The Utter Absurdity of BJP Govt’s Take on Unemployment
It has been two years since Myanmar’s military coup in 2021, which removed the bourgeois liberal government of Aung San … Continue reading Myanmar: barbarism, crime, war and the urgent need for socialism
November 11 is the birthday of Maulana Azad, the first Education Minister of Independent India. It is National Education Day … Continue reading Remembering the Titans of secular India
As the World Cup enters its concluding stages, this blog explores how the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shaping a … Continue reading More than a game: Narendra Modi and India’s cricket supremacy
Sitting in this killer-haze that’s been enveloping the New Delhi-NCR and the adjoining areas. The very survival getting tougher and … Continue reading Killer Haze of Delhi and Rubble of Bombed-out Gaza
This is a collection of articles on India’s national security, edited by N N Vohra former J& K Governor (2008-18) … Continue reading India’s National Security ChallengesEdited by NN Vohra
The Reverend Thomas Malthus gained notoriety in the 19th century as an ardent defender of poverty and inequality. He asserted … Continue reading Karl Marx versus Thomas Malthus: overpopulation or senile system?
8 November, marks 400 years since the publication of the first volume of Shakespeare’s collected plays, known as his “First … Continue reading William Shakespeare: a revolutionary in literature
Today, when war in some part of the world or the other has become a constant and we are researching … Continue reading Who is the greater, Alexander the Great or Fleming?
As I gaze at the fireplace, on this chilly wintry nightI reminisce of that moment, when of you I caught … Continue reading THE FIREPLACE
In the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2023, India has been ranked at the 111th position out of … Continue reading India’s Fight Against Poverty and Hunger
Elections in three key States including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana will be held in a single phase on November … Continue reading 2023 State polls – Toughest contest for the Congress in Rajasthan
Friday (3rd of November), Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as the IQAir put the city’s … Continue reading Air Quality Crisis in Delhi and Agroecological Alternatives
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are … Continue reading Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders
The stance of the Western Left vis-à-vis Western imperialism is causing a shift of the entire political centre of gravity … Continue reading US-China Dichotomy: Quietude of the Western Left
Last month, Israel arrested over 2,000 Palestinians, subjecting them to degrading treatment that amounts to torture. The failure of our … Continue reading Locked in Despair: Palestinian Hostages in Israeli Prisons
According to UNHCR global estimates, some 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2022. These days world’s … Continue reading Letter to the Readers
By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv Originally published: The Washington Post on February 7, 1988 TWO WEEKS after the end of the … Continue reading EXPELLING PALESTINIANS
Introduction There is quite a lot of political debate going on about Hinduism. Laymen and young cadres are quite confused … Continue reading On Hinduism: Clarifying Some Confusions
Critics have long argued that Section 153A is a blunt baton used to batter legitimate dissent. With authorities across India … Continue reading Shh, don’t support the official Indian position on Palestine or Section 153A IPC will be imposed on you!
The Israeli army, after much prevarication, finally started ground operations in Gaza over the weekend. But it was not a … Continue reading Gaza: the land offensive begins – but what next?
On Sunday 22 October, Argentinians went to the polls to determine the next president. The elections occurred in the context … Continue reading Elections in Argentina: capitalist crisis shakes-up ruling class parties
Was the struggle for freedom not rooted in Indian tradition, according to the stalwarts of the Sangh Parivar? Mohan Bhagwat … Continue reading RSS Calls for Status Quo in Guise of Emotional Unity
“We kill people on the basis of metadata.”— Unrepenting admission of Michael Hayden, former head of USA’s NSA and CIA quoted … Continue reading India’s First Metadata case: Supreme Court’s Constitution Bench to decide illegitimacy of Aadhaar Act amid Great Data Robbery
Preamble: “Our knowledge and control of the natural world, now science is seen as coping with many uncertainties in policy issues … Continue reading Reconciling Paradoxes in Climate Policy Making
To justify its genocidal bombardment of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli state, with the complicity of Western imperialists, tries to … Continue reading War, peace, and bourgeois morality
Since the collapse of SYRIZA in Greece’s general election back in June, the party leadership has been captured by a … Continue reading Greece: mass abstention expresses mass disillusionment as SYRIZA collapses
By not showing any concern for so many indices prepared by different agencies on nutritional deficiencies in India, the Hindutva-led … Continue reading Hostility to Evidence is the Hallmark of Fascists
Poetry is the pain of Gaza, it will hurt you time is ticking by,the world is standing by,images getting worse,voices … Continue reading Exploded child brains,Unborn in the wombs,Straight to the tomb,
As Israel prepares its forces for a land invasion of Gaza, all the western imperialist leaders, from Biden to Sunak, … Continue reading The nightmare of a Gaza land invasion and its consequences
With not even Europe fully supporting the US-UK stance on Israel, these two powers stand isolated globally. THE Israel-Palestine conflict … Continue reading A middle path needed to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict
Hamas’s recent attacks on Israel, in the presence of one of the best intelligence outfits in the world, has once … Continue reading Israel’s Role in Hamas’ Creation and its Retaliatory Genocide in Gaza
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is reaching a pivotal stage. The horrifying images of butchered civilians have provoked a wave … Continue reading Palestine: the failure of the two-state solution and the communist alternative
The second Public Hearing, required to obtain the Environment Clearance for the Sijimali Bauxite Mining Project of Vedanta, met with … Continue reading Resounding Opposition From Local Villagers To Mining By Vedanta During The Second Public Hearing
Israel’s war on Gaza has all the potential to escalate into a much bigger conflict, with fronts opening up on … Continue reading Israel-Palestine: imperialists worried war could escalate
Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. Israel’s … Continue reading Let Them Eat Cement
If denying water, electricity, and gas, which is a form of “collective punishment”, is itself a war crime, if the … Continue reading Genocide Under the Guise of ‘Collective Punishment’ in Gaza
“Does the world/ know the truth?” I just arrived homeGaza [insert heart emoji]I took my family to the beachit was … Continue reading “Life Line to Gaza”
This week, from 14–18 October, the Dilemmas of Humanity conference brought together political leaders, activists, and organic intellectuals from around the world … Continue reading The Palestinian People Are Already Free
Hundreds of people were killed yesterday in the bombing of the Al-Ahli al-Arabi (Baptist) Hospital in the Al-Zeitoun district of … Continue reading Hundreds killed in hospital attack in Gaza: rise up against Israel’s murderous campaign!
Rayagada, Odisha: The public hearing seeking environmental clearance for bauxite mining by Vedanta Limited at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district concluded on October 16 (Monday) … Continue reading Public Hearing For Vedanta’s Sijimali Mining Ends Amid Opposition By Villagers
An excerpt from ‘The Indian Cat: Stories, Paintings, Poetry, and Proverbs’, by BN Goswamy. Although not strictly of Indian origin, … Continue reading In art historian BN Goswamy’s new book, we learn how cats were loved and cherished in Islam
Trotsky warned in 1940 that the attempt to solve the ‘Jewish problem’ in Europe through the dispossession of the Palestinians … Continue reading The history of Israel-Palestine to 1993
In Gaza, Israel is gearing up to commit genocide. It is not doing so quietly. It is repeating its intent … Continue reading Impending Genocide
“If we allow a big country to bully a smaller one, to simply invade it and take its territory, then … Continue reading Israel on trial: the lie of the West’s ‘rules-based’ order
The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence across the region I have been in urban … Continue reading This way for the genocide, ladies and gentlemen
Abstract: On public perception, Odisha remains the poorest state but things were different in the first half 19th century. The state … Continue reading Debate on Deindustrialization continued: Fakirmohan Senapati’s ‘Balesore Pangaluna’
When anger dominates your verse, when it is all that is seen on your faceUnable, to move beyond emotions, your … Continue reading WHEN ANGER DOMINATES
The following short article by Karl Marx, published in the New York Daily Tribune in 1857, comments on the Indian Rebellion that … Continue reading Marx on the Indian Revolt, the violence of the oppressed, and imperialist hypocrisy
NO-ONE should cheer the slaughter in Israel. Those Israeli families in their homes, the young people at the music festival … Continue reading The violence of the oppressed
The following statement by varunvasunarayananblog the Readers Digest Guide To Intimate Relations declares our solidarity with the Palestinian people. It … Continue reading Down with hypocrisy! Defend Gaza! – RDGIR statement
Israel’s brutal and punctual violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza over the last decade, is in violation of all … Continue reading The savagery of the war against the Palestinian people
Hamas’s attack on Israel Today (Saturday 7 October 2023) came as a shock, taking the Israeli Intelligence and military establishment … Continue reading Israel-Palestine: no to the invasion of Gaza! End the occupation!
War poses everything in stark terms and thus puts all tendencies to the test. The war in Ukraine has led … Continue reading Ukraine war leads to splits in the Communist movement – back to Lenin!
Regimes implanted and maintained by violence engender violence The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, … Continue reading Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them
The newspaper must ask hard questions about whether it has allowed itself to become a tool for authoritarian propaganda and … Continue reading NYT’s report has been weaponised against Indian journalists. I had warned the paper about it
A large number of European politicians have been on the payrolls of giant corporates of US origin. One of the … Continue reading Why Europe’s Political Leadership is Marinated in Globalised Capital
The specific case of forest lands being thrown open for commercial use, is part of, and highlights, a broader issue, … Continue reading Forest Act Amendment: Sacrificing Forests on Altar of Corporate Interests?
To delineate a myth from the truth is difficult. As the lines between a democracy and oligarchy continue to blur … Continue reading The Health of Indian Democracy: A Critical Diagnosis
Abstract The historical narrative of governance of peoples and lands in the Indian sub-continent seems to have two distinct trajectories … Continue reading Restructuring and Democratising Governance, Expanding Political Autonomy
How are such areas identified and governed? What did the Bhuria committee in 1995 recommend? How have the provisions of … Continue reading The state of India’s Scheduled Areas
When I get up in the morning, put on my shoes and tie up the laces, I often ask myself: … Continue reading Has the working class disappeared? Fact and fiction
If the infamous three laws hadn’t been withdrawn, procurement would have been privatised and the government would have had no … Continue reading Food Price Spike: How Farmers’ Protest Saved the Country
AgricultureFar from seeing doubled incomes, farmers are caught in the pincer of low unfair prices for their produce and ever … Continue reading Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda
Those who make these claims never explain why, even today, those in power show no interest in empowered Indian women. … Continue reading Did Muslim Invasions Subjugate Hindu Women?
Monday 11 September marks the 50th anniversary of the coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende in Chile. This article, written … Continue reading Chile: the threatening catastrophe
Monday 11 September marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende in Chile and installed … Continue reading Lessons of Chile 1973
At present, the entire country is discussing the remarks made by Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK … Continue reading Dr.Ambedkar, Sanatan Dharma and Dalit Politics
Udayanidhi Stalin’s statement that he’s prepared to furnish the writings of Periyar and Ambedkar to defend his comments on sanatana … Continue reading The Challenge to Sanatana Dharma from a Radical Politics of Emancipation
Dr B.R. Ambedkar must be our guiding light in understanding what “sanatana dharma” is today – nothing more than a … Continue reading What Is Sanatana Dharma?
Technology can realize greatly intensified forms of continuous democratic participation, but such applications must be openly developed and publicly owned. … Continue reading Tomorrow’s Democracy Is Open Source
The struggle for communism, and is intended to provide a number of important lessons from the history of the Soviet … Continue reading Are you a communist?
Introduction: Diverse Economy Indian economy is the most diverse in the world. The usual sectors primary, secondary and tertiary are … Continue reading MSMEs in India: Nation’s Progress Depends on Them
They have mapped, step by step, India’s descent (although some see it as an ascent) into first majoritarianism and then … Continue reading The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
Socialism now needs to add a critical analysis of capitalism’s micro-level organization inside workplaces and households to its macro-level analyses … Continue reading Twenty-First Century Socialism: What It Will Become and Why
A boon for those who question so-called historians merely fantasising about the past and present only what they would like … Continue reading History cannot be recast: Book Review of ‘Our History, Their History, Whose History?’ by Romila Thapar
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, last Thursday to discuss how to respond … Continue reading French imperialism is collapsing in West Africa
They rue that in the aftermath of the British Raj, the country continued to be ruled by a tiny Westernized … Continue reading How Hindu Nationalists Redefined Decolonization in India
Introduction A team of Janhastakshep toured areas of Palwal, Sohna and Gurugram, as also spoke with other people from Nuh … Continue reading THE NUH COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND THE CONSPIRACY OF THE HINDUTVA BRIGADE: GROUND REPORT BY JANHASTAKSHEP
Indian social media is a brutal place, a window on the everyday hatred and violence that has come to colonize … Continue reading India Is on the Brink
Delhi Public Library’s membership fell by 35,000 members between 2019 and 2022 – this number is yet to come up … Continue reading “If The Public Library System Needs To Be Effective, It Needs To Reimagine It’s Reader”
Even for someone who worked extensively on Adivasi history, his thesis ‘Contesting Claims and Contingencies of Rule: Singhbhum 1800 – … Continue reading Umar Khalid, the Historian: His Continued Imprisonment Is a Loss to the Academic World
“What has happened is very wrong. It is always the poor man who ends up suffering. The people who ran … Continue reading In the Aftermath of the Arson in Gurugram